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RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] how to subscribe to Tome Ivers list? - heidiThe big deal over Bill Proctor and his endurance record was all about carbo loading. Bill was promoting Tom's product. I would love to see more discussion about the carbo loading because I do believe it's being used and some would say (besides Tom or Bill) that it does have merit. Well, um, sort of. Yes, that was what Bill and Tom were trying to promote. But the "big deal" about it was that it was that Bill's story was a fabrication. If you are going to try to sell me something, for gosh sakes, at least have the courtesy and the smarts to cite REAL events and REAL research, instead of making up a pie-in-the-sky "success" story. Is it a forbidden subject in the endurace world (that sure shouldn't stop a discussion of it on Ridecamp), or, has it come and gone, over time? I really don't know but would love to hear from others on this one. Nope, hardly a forbidden subject. It was Tom himself that made it a "hot button" thing, as several other folks (notably SuG, but also Sarah Ralston and several others) discussed it sanely and rationally, and talked about horses with different abilities to handle carbs, how carbs are utilized, why they can be used in certain ways and not in others, what the role of the hindgut is and how carbs affect that, etc. A great many people were willing to discuss carbs as a part of the whole "big picture" but kept coming back to exactly that--looking at the entire horse. Tom was the lone standout who kept insisting on the extreme, and refusing to look at how the rest of the digestive system worked. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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